Govt trains workers

The Lagos State government has through the office of the Local Government Establishment Pension and Training trained human resources managers at the local government level.They were trained on Information Communication Technology (ICT).

The training held at the Lagos State Council of Chambers of Commerce and Industry (LCCI), Ikeja Lagos, was to ensure that all human resources managers in the councils understand the importance of ICT to enhance job performance.

Speaking on the essence of the training the Permanent Secretary, Local Government Establishment Pension and Training, Mr Ashimi Jamiu Adewale disclosed that it was meant to equip the council human resources managers with more ICT knowledge and its application to their jobs.

“The essence of the training is to train our local government personnel on the use of computer because that is what is in operation now all over the world and in few years time, there will be nothing you can do without ICT.

management is about decision making and if you want to take any sound decision you need ICT, it is one of the basic means to get data and store it for future use, so the main motive is to train the local government Human Resource Managers and we hope it will translate into better service delivery at the local government level,” he said.

The chairman Local Government Service Commission Alhaji Moshood Oluwole Ojikutu said the training will enables the HR to gain more knowledge of the ICT and enhance their performances at the local government level.

“We have been training all cadres of staff in the local government regularly, but this particular one we needed it for our human resources managers because of the little gap between our expectation of their performance and the real job performance, we know that they will gain a lot more from the knowledge of ICT and its application to their jobs,” he said.